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Photo-Brush is a multi-featured image editor, photo enhancer and correction utility. It can also be used as a replacement to the Windows’ paint tool or as a browser for RAW images. Even though it sports many additional photo editing and exploring functions, its best and most appreciated feature is the ability to retouch images.

Remove red eyes, adjust RGB curves and apply one of the many effects available

Tools such as object and red-eye removal, together with brightness adjustments are bound to produce works of art. Furthermore, digital images can be reworked with the aid of special editing capabilities, such as gamma, hue/saturation, RGB curves and contrast, to name the most common ones.

The effects section comes with several options as well. These include sparkles, color replacement, shadows, fractal Droste, emboss, glass and can be manually applied only for a particular portion of the image.

Pressure Sensitive tablet and plugin support, and some painting tools

Photo-Brush also comes off as an excellent painting application. The program provides you with outstanding textures, artistic, natural and 3D brushes and oil colors; not to mention that with the cloning feature, you can convert existing images into paintings.

A special characteristic is the Pressure Sensitive tablet support. It enables you to control the intensity of any brush, thus allowing you to emphasize details and make the paintings more expressive.

In addition, Photo-Brush features support for Adobe compatible plugins; the smart plugin manager is able to scan your computer for existing graphic add-ons, thus spearing you the manual work.

Evaluation

All in all, Photo-Brush is an excellent tool for designers and graphic artists. With its advanced retouching abilities, the rich set of effects and the amazing brush collection, the application makes it easy to turn a regular photo into a brilliant work of art. Moreover, it can achieve these great results without putting a strain on the computer’s performance and without popping up errors, crashing or hanging.

Color Lab, works using new natural LRGBY color enhancing - produce instant photo-magazine grade vivid images with a touch of few dials. It allows for more flexible, natural dynamic color enhancements, without the typical over-processed look when using RGB or HSL.